Blood Fever

Charlie Higson

YOUNG BOND BOOKS BY CHARLIE HIGSON

SILVERFIN

BLOOD FEVER

DOUBLE OR DIE

HURRICANE GOLD

BY ROYAL COMMAND

DANGER SOCIETY: YOUNG BOND DOSSIER

SILVERFIN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

BLOOD FEVER

CHARLIE HIGSON

Ian Fleming Publications

IAN FLEMING PUBLICATIONS

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First published by the Penguin Group 2006

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ISBN: 978-1-906772-62-8

For Jim

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michael Meredith and Nick Baker at Eton for all their help.

Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgements

The Magyar

1 The Danger Society

2 Double M

3 The Fourth of June

4 Out of Control

5 The Tombs of the Giants

6 The Sailor Who Feared the Sea

7 Terror Firma

8 Escape

9 La Casa Polipo

10 You Can’t Eat a Picasso

11 Count Ugo Carnifex

12 Let Down Your Hair, Rapunzel

13 Black Spines Filled with Poison

14 The Last Thing That Goes Through the Mind of a Dying Man

15 Su Compoidori

16 Gladiators

17 Blood Brothers

18 A Face at the Window

19 Déjà Vu

20 The Penny Drops

21 Sadism Before Supper

22 The Deadliest Animal in the World

23 Deadlier Than the Male

24 The Dance of Blood

25 Tommy Gun

26 It’s Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn

27 When Hell Breaks Loose

28 The Magyar’s Revenge

29 Behind the Mask

30 Just a Boy

The Magyar

Amy Goodenough was the luckiest girl alive. Here she was, in the Mediterranean, on her father’s beautiful yacht, when she should have been at school.

It was a glorious day. Apart from a long black smudge of smoke to the south, the sky was a deep, unbroken blue. She tilted her face up to catch the warmth of the sun, breathed in slowly and smiled. Really, she had no right to be here. A fire had destroyed several of the buildings at her school and it had been forced to close early for the summer. Many of the other girls had been hurriedly packed off to other schools to finish the term, but not Amy. She had easily persuaded her father to let her join him on his annual spring cruise around the Greek islands, on condition that a personal tutor came with them. Since Amy’s mother had died of scarlet fever two years ago her father had been very lonely and he was glad of his daughter’s company.